Taking heart, perhaps, from George W. Bush's oft-quoted declaration, the Metropolitan Police are launching a campaign to encourage lorries and cyclists to share the road safely. Traffic officers will be out during rush hour this week, helping to "educate both groups about the dangers they pose to each other" - a worthy aim, though if we're being fair, one group is considerably more dangerous than the other. Victoria Pendleton, she of the gold medal-winning pedal......

We don't wish to tar every pedal-pusher with the same garish shade of Lycra, but it can't escape the more observant pedestrian that a small minority of cyclists take an approach to road safety and basic manners that can be best described as "indifferent". Having taken disregard for red lights and one-way streets to new heights, the problem has spread to the Royal parks, where wannabe Victoria Pendletons can be seen tearing it up......